Why did WPP decide to snuff out the identities of three of its most storied agencies—Thompson, Y&R and Wunderman—to create a new entity VML, the world’s largest creative company? The clues lie in the stock markets—and the immense pressures acting on its CEO Mark Read

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• WPP
• Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R merger
• Mark Read
• VML

The global merger of JWT and Wunderman is a signal of how a new combination of techies and fuzzies might dominate the world of innovation and marketing

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• Big Data
• WPP
• Advertising and marketing
• Wunderman Thompson
• Martin Sorrell
• Mark Read
• JWT